The English Horace : Anthony Alsop and the tradition of British Latin verse / by D.K. Money
Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1998. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443869
ISBN: 0197261841
Physical description; 406 pages : portrait ; 26 cm. Contents; 1. Introduction -- 2. From the Rebellion to the Revolution -- 3. Greatest Lyric Poet -- 4. Scholarship or Polite Literature -- 5. Revenge and Laughter -- 6. Newtonian Jacobites -- 7. Scandal, Exile and Retirement -- 8. After Alsop -- 9. Multitude of Muses -- 10. Purity and Emptiness -- Poems of Anthony Alsop (Text, Translation, and Commentary) -- Bk. 1. Miscellaneous Odes -- Bk. 2. Epistolary Odes -- Bk. 3. Additional Odes and Hexameter Poems -- Bk. 4. English Poems and Doubtful Latin Poems. Subjects; Alsop, Anthony 1671 or 1672-1726 Criticism and interpretation. Horace Appreciation Great Britain. Horace Influence. Alsop, Anthony 1671 or 1672-1726 Translations into English. Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Great Britain History and criticism. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Great Britain Roman influences. Epistolary poetry, Latin Great Britain.
Price: €18.95